I fucking hate the fact i was banned from starting threads. I may be a little off but i dont post crap like some people do and yet i'm the bad guy in this fuck that shit. I gonna say stop the hate. Let me post a thread please.
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Next summer when it's 100° and I'm bitching about the heat, remind how much I hate this bullshit.
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reported.
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Damn, I thought I was the only pissed off person today. :-)

Btw, I just finished shoveling snow and now my back is killing me. Yes, I was SHOVELING. We own a damn corner lot, yet we don't own a snowblower.

WTF sense does that make? None. :-)
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How much snow did you get?

It sounds like you need a tractor.
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Buy a snowblower?
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I don't own one either. I have too damn many other machines to store and maintain, I don't want another one around that I only really need 2-3 times a year.
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Around 6-8" here. It's hard to really tell when it's drifted all to hell, and the first couple inches were basically slush that instantly froze once the snow above it was removed. 'Twas a nasty one this time.
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Fuck this storm. It cancelled my good friends flight which stopped the entire trip.

Why couldn't that just wait a week or at least until tonight. Fucked up all kinds of plans
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WTF else do you have to take care of? Mower, Weedeater.....Hedge Trimmers?

Last year my buddy bought one. I stacked the shit on him because it NEVER snows much here. If it does it is light and shitty and won't work well for a snowblower.

Then it promptly snowed 18 inches of heavy ass snow. I'd have been assfucked without it. It probably paid for itself between my driveway, his driveway, my grandma's, and his grandmas. If we wouldn't have had it, I would have had to go get the tractor and a loader and it would have been horrible.

It's worth it. Even if you just used it once.
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Yeah, we had massive wind here too. I bet it was blowing 60. We only got an inch, and the slushy stuff I was excited about because it stuck in the fields and didn't blow away.
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A tractor would be nice.

We got 5-6 inches, maybe? The problem is it rained before it snowed yesterday. Then, of course, the sun was out earlier today and I couldn't get to shovel until the sun was down. There was a lovely sheet of ice on top of the snow.

So, there I was... busting the shit out of the ice and snow. All of this after dealing w/ the ignorant slutmonger client. Oh, and I wanted to fill up the tank in the Jeep, (ya know, prepare it for ramming zombies, and such), and the damn pumps were slow as all hell. I stood there for 5 minutes and only got $8 worth of gas.

This has not been a pleasant day. :-)
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I've thought about just buying a new one every fall, and selling it every spring. Even if I took a $100 hit on it, it would still be worth it.

And I have a regular mower, lawn tractor, weed eater, blower, chain saw, power washer, and three freaking vehicles. That's enough gas powered machines.
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Well, shit. So much for my plan on making you feel bad for me and offering to clear our sidewalks/driveway when the next snow hits. :-)

One of the reasons why we don't own one is because every POS snowblower that we did have didn't last long. Of course, they were used, hand-me-downs from my FIL. Need I say more? :-) I also can't see spending hundreds of dollars on one when, (like you said), we only see this crap a few times.
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Yeah that's a factor too, they all turn into pieces of crap after 3-4 years. A lot end up with fuel system issues from sitting around unused most of the time. That was the other reason I was thinking about the new one every year, I know the damn thing would work when I needed it to.
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